Country: UK, USA, France
Year: 2010
Duration: 94'
The mountain climber Aron Ralston has to try to save himself after a gigantic rock falls on his arm and traps him in a canyon in Utah. Over the next five days, Ralston is at the mercy of the elements and must find the courage to carry out an extreme act in order to escape an increasingly critical situation. During the difficult hours that will lead to his salvation the man has the time to think back to his friends, his lovers, his family and the two climbers he encountered shortly before the accident.
Biography
film director
Danny Boyle
(Manchester, UK, 1956) worked in theatre and television before he began to direct for the cinema. Shallow Grave (1994) was his first feature film but the breakthrough came with his second feature, Trainspotting (1996). After A Life Less Ordinary (1997) and The Beach (2000), he experimented different genres, like horror in 28 Days Later (2003), comedy in Millions (2004) and sci-fi with Sunshine (2007). In 2008 with Slumdog Millionaire he won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as eight Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. In 2012, he presented 127 Hours at the Festival, after which he continued to make highly acclaimed films and television series episodes, ranging from comedy (Yesterday) to horror (28 Years Later).
FILMOGRAFIA
Scout (mm, tv, 1987), The Venus de Milo Instead (mm, tv, 1987), The Nightwatch (mm, tv, 1989), For the Greater Good (tv, 1991), Inspector Morse (Ispettore Morse, tv, 1990-1992), Mr. Wroe's Virgins (tv, 1993), Mister Wroe’s Virgins (mm, tv, 1993), Shallow Grave (Piccoli omicidi tra amici, 1994), Trainspotting (id., 1996), A Life Less Ordinary (Una vita esagerata, 1997), Alien Love Triangle (cm, 1999), The Beach (id., 2000), Strumpet (tv, 2001), Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (tv, 2001), 28 Days Later (28 giorni dopo, 2003), Millions (id., 2004), Sunshine (id., 2007), Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire, 2008), 127 Hours (2010), Happy and Glorious (cm, 2012), Babylon (tv, 2014), Trance (In trance, 2013), Steve Jobs (id., 2015), T2 Trainspotting (id., 2017), Yesterday (id., 2019), Trust (tv, 2018), Pistol (tv, 2022), 28 Years Later (28 anni dopo, 2025).
Declaration
film director
"I think we all would do anything we could for this life that is so beautiful and keeps us going. I think what Aron experienced in that canyon was a sudden realization of the full value of life. One of the ideas of the film is that he was never really alone in the canyon. Physically, he very much was, but he was surrounded spiritually by everyone he’d ever known or loved or dreamed about.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle. STORY: from the novel Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston. SCREENPLAY: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Enrique Chediak, Anthony Dod Mantle. FILM EDITING: Jon Harris. PRODUCTION AND COSTUME DESIGN: Suttirat Anne Larlarb. MUSIC: A.R. Rahman. CAST: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Treat Williams, Kate Burton, John Lawrence. PRODUCTION: Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, John Smithson for Searchlight Pictures, Pathé, Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films, Darlow Smithson Productions.
